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Resolution Number: 1991-A178
Title: Encourage the Use of Parochial Reports in Mission Planning and Development
Legislative Action Taken: Concurred
Final Text:

Resolved, That the 70th General Convention call upon the Executive Council to:

  1. encourage the Presiding Bishop and his staff to use the Parochial and Diocesan Reports as planning and development tools, including developing a mechanism to assist users of these reports in their planning and development tasks;
  2. include in its report to the General Convention an analysis with interpretive comments on the information contained in the Parochial and Diocesan Reports and their implications for mission planning and mission development;
  3. continue to review the Parochial and Diocesan Reports for indications of the need for future revisions, to assure that these reports are the most effective measuring tools available to the Church.
Citation: General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Phoenix, 1991 (New York: General Convention, 1992), p. 644.

Legislative History

Author: The Committee on the State of the Church
Originating House: House of Bishops
Originating Committee: Committee on Stewardship and Development

House of Bishops

Original Text of Resolution:

(A178)

Resolved, the House of Deputies concurring, That the 70th General Convention call upon the Executive Council to:

  1. encourage the Presiding Bishop and his staff to use the Parochial and Diocesan Reports as planning and development tools, including developing a mechanism to assist users of these reports in their planning and development tasks;
  2. include in its report to the General Convention an analysis with interpretive comments on the information contained in the Parochial and Diocesan Reports and their implications for mission planning and mission development;
  3. continue to review the Parochial and Diocesan Reports for indications of the need for future revisions, to assure that these reports are the most effective measuring tools available to the Church.

Motion carried

Resolution adopted

(Communicated to the House of Deputies in HB Message #32)

House of Deputies

The Committee on Stewardship and Development presented its Report #11 on House of Bishops Message #32 relating to Resolution A178 (Using Parochial Reports in Planning and Development Work) and moved concurrence.

The House concurred

(Communicated to the House of Bishops in HD Message #146)

Resolution Concurred by Both Houses, July 16.

Report Reference:   Committee on the State of the Church, Reports to the 70th General Convention, 1991, pp. 451-462.
Abstract:   The 70th General Convention calls upon the Executive Council to use and analyze the Parochial/Diocesan Reports as planning and development tools.